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Re: Nagaland University B Sc Syllabus

The syllabus of B Sc Botany Program offered by Nagaland University is as follows:

SEMESTER I

Course No: BOT-101 BIODIVERSITY I (Bacteria, Algae, Fungi and Viruses)

UNIT 1: Origin and Evolution of Biodiversity

General account on Darwins theory of evolution; The evolution of populations; Concepts of species; Mechanism of speciation.
Three Domains of lifeArchaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota;
Evolutionary relationship among the three domains

UNIT II: Bacteriology
Ultra structure of bacterial cell
Comparison of Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
Gram positive and Gram negative Bacteria
Bergeys Classification of Bacteria
Shapes of bacteria
Reproduction- vegetative, asexual, sexual (conjugation, transformation and transduction)
Bacterial genome and plasmid
Economic importance of Bacteria

UNIT III: Phycology
Cyanobacteria: Cell structure, thallus organization,
Structure and life history of Nostoc and Anabaena
Outlines of Fritschs classification of algae
Types of alternation of generation
Range of vegetative and reproductions in Chlorophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Phaeophyceae and
Rhodophyceae
Important features of life cycle of Oedogonium, Vaucheria, Ectocarpus, and Polysiphonia
Economic importance of Algae

UNIT IV: Mycology
General characters and classification of Fungi
Range of vegetative structure and reproduction in fungi
Important features of life cycle of Pythium, Erysiphe, Aspergillus, Puccinia, Agaricus, and Alternaria.
General account of Lichens
Mycorrhizae,

UNIT V: Virology
Discovery of Virus
Replication, lytic (T4 phage) and Lysogenic cycle (Lambda phage);
Types-DNA virus (coliphage T32), RNA virus (TMV), Retro virus (HIV);
Virioids and Prions

Suggested Readings:
1) Alexopoulos C.J and MIMS C.V 1988. Introductory Mycology, John Wiley and Sons
2) Bold, H.C. and Wayne, M.J. 1996 Introduction to Algae (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
3) Campbell, N.A. and Reece, J. B. (2008) Biology 8th edition, Pearson Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco.
4) Dubey R C and D K Maheswary : A Text Book of Microbiology : S Chand and Co New Delhi,
5) Lee, R.E. 2008. Phycology, Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, USA.
6) Pandey and Trivedi - A text book of Fungi, Bacteria and Virus Vikas Publishing
House, New Delhi.
7) Pelczar, M.J. (2001) Microbiology, 5th edition, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Co, New Delhi.
8) Presscott, L. Harley, J. and Klein, D. (2005) Microbiology, 6th edition, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Co. New Delhi.
9) Raven, P.H et al (2006) Biology 7th edition Tata McGrawHill Publications, New Delhi
10) Sambamurthy, AVSS. 2006. A Textbook of Algae. I. K. International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
11) Thakur Anil K, Bassi Susheel K, Diversity of microbes and Cryptogams. S. Chand and Company, New Delhi
12) Van den Hoek, C.; Mann, D.J. and Jahns, H.M. 1995 Algae: An introduction to Phycology. Cambridge Univ. Press
13) Webster, J. and Weber, R. 2007 Introduction to Fungi. 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge


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